[Cover photo credit to Simone Cecchetti]

Grammy Award winner, acoustic guitarist, and composer Tommy Emmanuel has released a new live performance video for “Bella Soave,” a track from his upcoming album Endless Road: 20th Anniversary Edition, out May 17th, 2024. In the video, Emmanuel talks about the song’s inspiration and it was shot outside his home in Nashville and directed by Joshua Britt & Neilson Hubbard for Neighborhoods Apart.

Endless Road has now been remastered for digital outlets and will also be available for the first time ever on vinyl.

Emmanuel recalls that he wrote “Bella Soave” in the back of car while traveling from Soave (near Verona), where he had just spent a few days at a guitar festival, down to Rome.

He says:

The song was written after my first visit in Soave, Italy in 1999. It was the first festival I ever played. I was so happy and overjoyed from the experience of the festival that I started writing when I got into the backseat of the car. We were driving from Soave down to Rome for a show and workshop, and I wrote this song on the way there. I got it finished and played it that night at the show. I tried to give it a sort of Spanish feel in the bridge because I had met a lot of Spaniards that weekend at the festival,” he adds. “’Bella Soave’ means ‘beautiful Soave.’ It’s a beautiful place and has been a big part of my musical life.

The new edition of Endless Road will include three never-before released live bonus tracks: “Mona Lisa (Live),” “Mr. Guitar (Live),” and “Morning Aire (Live)“.